About the Editor

Roberto has over 25 years experience in the IT field, and has spent the last 12 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. Roberto has taken an active interest in different open source projects and organizations, he has served on advisory boards, and helped large IT vendors, open source vendors and customers to design and deploy their open source strategies. After serving as Senior Director of Business Development at SourceForge for over 4 years, in 2016 he started a new company called Business Follows, whose mission is to is to help developers, companies and organizations to make Open Source development a key part of their business strategies. He is the editor of commercial open source blog.

Open Source Meta-Forges: MonitoringForge is online!

Talkingfrequentlywith David Dennis – Senior Director marketing at GroundWork – I happened to share with him the idea that a neutral open source monitoring à la CMSMatrix was missing. Now that GroundWork decided to start an initiative somehow going towards that direction I asked Tara Spalding, VP Marketing at GroundWork, to comment the news.Tara, how will you MonitoringForge it in a neutral fashion?

MonitoringForge intends to have community driven governance, and is immediately assembling an advisory board to further harden the agnostic approach for project presentation and participation.

The initiative makes me think about Christian Sarkar “double loop marketing“, and I would like to know more about why you did it.

Today there are too many websites hosting hundreds of open source IT monitoring projects that have inconsistent end user experiences, and are built around a single project or architect. For example, there are 185 unique Nagios-related submitters on SourceForge.net. There are several other projects out there such as Zenoss, Ganglia, Cacti, and of course GroundWork – and combined our developer base overlaps in interest and talent.

If GroundWork will manage to keep it neutral, both open source end-users and customers will benefit of it.

Kudos to GroundWork for the initiative!

About MonitoringForge: With more than 1,700 projects and plugins that are open source licensed, users have an immediate ready-to-go toolset when they visit MonitoringForge.org. All projects are invited to participate by hosting their code on the site, or creating a project front-end that passes through to the existing development.